5 Lip Liners to Love.

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Lip liner (when done correctly) is a makeup essential. Lip liner should not be seen. It can either match your lips or lip gloss/stick color. It can be applied all over the lips to make lipstick last liner, or on the perimeter of your lips to keep lipstick from feathering and give a more polished and defined look to the lips. NEVER wear a lip liner shade darker than the lipstick color you are wearing. (It was a few month fad a few years ago, but it never ever looked right.)

Clinique's lip liner application tip, which is the one I find best to explain on how to wear lip liner on the perimeter properly:

Follow "dot-dot-dash" method to ensure ease and accuracy of application: Draw two dots on upper lip's bow, a dash across bottom of lower lip, then connect all three. To extend lip colour wear, fill in lips with liner, then follow with lipstick.

Over the years I have tried many lip liners, and I seem to add a new one into my routine once in a while, but I usually stick to what works best. For me, those are nude colors that match my own lip tone.  Here are my favorite lip liners in the nude color family - which I firmly believe that everyone should have at least one of in their makeup bag.

 

 

  1. L'Oreal Paris Infallible Never Fail Lip Liner in Nude ($8.99)
    This is a twist up style type of liner that smoothly lines lips and doesn't budge all day. I like to use this over my entire lip area topped with a nude or very light translucent pink gloss for a beautiful, natural nude lip.
  2. Clinique Defining Liner for Lips in Berry Nude ($14.99)
    A pencil lip liner with a handy sharpener built into the cap. This liner glides on and really protects lip color from feathering.
  3. MAC Lip Pencil in Subculture ($13.00)
    A pink hued nude lip pencil that is perfect to line around the lips. This one is perfect to match more pink lipcolors beautifully. I use this one a lot!
  4. MAC Lip Pencil in Spice ($13.00)
    I wear this darker nude lip liner under really light colors to darken them up a bit in the fall/winter seasons. I also wear it a lot on it's own with a gloss. It is also the lip pencil I use most often and have been for years!
  5. Lancome Le Lipstique in Sheer Nude ($23)
    Le Lipstique is a very creamy lip pencil lip liner. One end contains the color while the other a brush, as it is almost preferred to be worn as a lipstick base.

MAC Double Dazzle.

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Last May, MAC Cosmetics introduced us to Dazzleglass. They have umped the anty for this new offering, as they extended the collection with seven new Dazzleglass shades and revamped their popular Dazzle Lash mascara. This is Double Dazzle.

Double Dazzle will daze the closest competition with colour-changing, light-reflecting pearl-shine lips; paired with a new formula for the ultimate in voluptuous lashes, et voilà! Lips lead: seven new Dazzleglass shades bring the scintillating selection up to 18! The flotilla-of-lights formula imparts the pearl combination with mega-glisten shine, creamy comfort and the subtle sensation of vanilla. Lashes follow: multiplied, volumized, utterly glorified by our newest eye innovation...This sly new small-and-mighty brush has been developed to capture and emphasize each and every lash. Lips, Lashes, Lovers...Look out!

DAZZLEGLASS ($18)
Sugarrimmed - Milky pale pink with red, teal and white pearl
Goldyrocks - Sheer soft yellow with pink and gold pearl
Moth to Flame - Sheer neutral beige with violet pearl
Smile - Light coral with pink and gold pearl
Steppin’ Out - Clean yellow pink with red pearl
Utterly Posh - Mid-tone orange with pink and gold pearl
Love Alert - Raspberry red with red pearl
Date Night - Deep plum with blue and gold pearl
Funtablulous - Purple with violet pearl
Extra Amps - Sheer bright blue pink with blue and pink pearl
Like Venus - Clean light bubble gum pink with red pearl
Stop! Look! - Sheer violet mauve with blue and pink pearl
Money Honey - Mid-tone rosy mauve with red pearl
Rags to Riches - Plummy pink with teal and red pearl
Baby Sparks - Pale pink with violet pearl
Bare Necessity -Caramel apricot with red and gold pearl
Girl’s Delight - Sheer mid-tone tan with gold pearl
Get Rich Quick - Warm yellow brown

DAZZLE LASH ($12)
Star Brunette - Brown
Black Dazzle - Black

Double Dazzle will be out in full force April 30th. You will find it at all MAC locations as well as maccosmetics.com.

More on MAC's Latest Additions to the Prep + Prime Collection.

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As I told you yesterday, part of the new MAC Collection Colour Ready are these three new products that are now a permanent part of their Prep + Prime Collection. Seriously, these are the star products of the line up and I cannot get enough of them.

I am particularly fancied with the Line Filler. It has changed the way my face looks finished. The way it fills in my lines is amazing. The fact that I can use it over my makeup to blend away even more lines as they creep up during the day is just as brilliant.

Take a more in depth look at the latest Prep + Prime products.

Prep + Prime Skin Refined Zone

This product is a partial primer designed for use in the T-Zone. This lightweight, oil-free, soy-based emulsion instantly helps minimize visible pores while helping to control excess surface oil and shine. M·A·C employs High Tech Optics, an advanced technology powder and light diffusers to fill in lines. The result: an invisible, natural-looking, long-lasting matte finish that also helps keep pores clean, clear and unclogged. It mattifies and hides imperfections using advanced powders and microspheres while a Mannose-Phosphate blend gently exfoliates away dead cells giving the skin a more youthful look and silica particles absorb oil. In addition to immediately minimizing pore appearance and shine, 24% experience an increased luminosity and clarity of the skin. Additionally, clinical tests show that over time, the Prep + Prime Skin Refined Zone reduces the appearance of clogged pores and shrinks the appearance of pores to nearly two-thirds of its original size.

Prep + Prime Line Filler


This favorite of mine is a targeted deep wrinkle filler with long term skincare benefits that uses a unique technological breakthrough. Line Filler plumps and smoothes skin and drastically reduces the appearance of wrinkles and expression lines. A combination of Gatuline

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